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12.06 – Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox

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12.06 – Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox

DETAILS

Writer: John Bedham
Director: Steven Yockey
First aired: Thursday, November 17, 2016

THREE WINCHESTERS ARE BETTER THAN ONE – When hunters gather together to celebrate the life and tragic death of one of their own, Sam (Jared Padalecki) Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Mary (guest star Samantha Smith) must take action when a demon starts picking off hunters one by one.

John Bedham directed the episode written by Steven Yockey (#1206). Original airdate 11/17/2016.

 

Recap

RECAP

Emerson, Manitoba – 1980

A boy, Asa Fox, runs through the woods and a werewolf chases after him. the boy trips and the werewolf grabs him and slams him into a tree, snarling. He scratches the boy’s cheek and then prepares to kill him… and Mary arrives and kills the creature. Mary drives Asa home and says that he’ll be fine. When he wonders what attacked him, Mary explains that it was a werewolf and they had a history. As she takes him up to his house, Mary says that she is retiring as soon as she ties up a few loose ends. Asa asks her who will protect people like him if she retires. Mary has no answers for him, and sends him to his front door. As Asa goes to the door, he takes a Polaroid of Mary as she drives off.

Later, Asa puts the photo of Asa on his board. He collects newspaper clippings of monster sightings and writes postcards to Mary that he can’t send. As he grows older, he continues colleting clippings and trains himself to be a Hunter. Finally he’s chasing something through the forest but someone hangs him by the neck with a rope.

Jody is relaxing on her day off when there’s a knock at her door. It’s Sam and Dean, and they explain that they just finished a hunt in Brookings. Jody tells them that Claire and Alex are out of town at a concert, and invites them to have dinner with her. After they eat, Jody gets a call and then starts crying. She gets some clothing and tells the brothers that a friend of hers died: Asa Fox. Sam remembers that Ellen used to tell stories about Asa, and Jody met him a few months ago chasing a pack of ghouls. They kept in touch since then, and Jody says that he was a good man. She tells the brothers that the wake is that night, and the Winchesters insist on going with them. Sam points out that they never go to Hunter gatherings outside of bars on their father’s advice, and Jody agrees.

The trio drive to Canada and go into Asa’s family house where Hunters are drinking and commemorating Asa’s death. A woman, Asa’s mother Lorraine, comes over and greets Jody. Sam offers their condolences, and Lorraine walks off. Dean goes to the kitchen to grab some beers, and one of the Hunters, Bucky Sims, says that he brewed it himself. When Dean introduces himself, the other Hunters are surprised to learn that he’s still alive. One Hunter, Elvis Katz, goes to see Sam, and Bucky and another Hunter, Randy Bull, introduce themselves. They ask what stories Dean heard, and share a drink when Dean mentions “Wendigos.” Bucky tells Dean that the stories about Asa aren’t as crazy as the ones they say about Dean.

Sam is talking to Alicia and her brother Max about how they were raised by a witch. Elvis comes over and introduces himself to Sam. He’s heard that Sam was possessed by the Devil, and Alice and Max suggest that he back off. Sam quickly excuses himself, and Elvis latches onto the brother and sister.

Dean is in the study looking at Asa’s Angel Blade when Sam comes in. He points out that they’re legendary like Asa, and Asa ended up hanging from a tree alone in the woods. Dean figures there’s no better way to go, and reminds Sam that they’re not in the old-age business. He points out Asa’s clippings on the wall and points out that hunting only ends one way.

The wake breaks up and Bucky is sharing stories with the few people that stayed behind. He mentions that Asa and Jody got together, and she says that it was a casual thing. Lorraine admits that Asa was popular with the ladies and isn’t offended. Randy goes to the kitchen to get more beers, and when he comes back someone cuts his throat and drags him into a room.

Mary comes into the main room and Sam and Dean are surprised to see their mother. They talk to her privately with Jody, and introduce her to Mary. Jody is surprised to see Mary since she was dead, and hugs her. She leaves to give them some family time, and Mary says that she went to Lawrence and then used John’s journal to retrace a few things. Dean points out that she could have asked them, and Mary says that it’s something that they needed to do alone. She explains that she thought Asa was still around and then she saw an article about her death, and Dean clearly isn’t happy that she took time off to see a dead guy but barely texts them. He walks out and Sam stops Mary from going after him.

As Dean goes out, Jody confronts him and points out that he didn’t mention Mary was back from the dead. She tells him that if she could have her son and husband back, she would give anything to have that but it would scare the hell out of her. Jody wonders what it would be like if any of them changed, and it didn’t work out the way she wanted. She tells Dean that she’s there if he wants to talk about anything, and then goes back to the wake.

As Mary gets a beer, Lorraine comes in and introduces herself. She points out that Mary would be her age, and tells Mary that she should be sorry. Mary is the reason that Asa didn’t become an astronaut, and gives Mary the box with the postcards he wrote but could never send. When Mary says that she saved her life, Lorraine tells her that Asa became obsessed with Hunting and it was his all life. He never married or had kids. Disgusted, Lorraine tells Mary to enjoy the wake and walks out.

Mary comes back and gives the box to Sam. He wonders if everything is fine, and Mary explains that she saved Asa as a boy. Sam points out that Asa made his own decisions and saved a lots of people, but Mary says that a lot of things have felt wrong since she came back. Sam figures that she and Dean both need space, and Dean is worried that she’ll walk away from them. He points out that based on the postcards, Mary was hunting back in 1980 after she retired, and figures that she can’t stop now because Hunting is in their blood. They then go back to the wake to say goodbye to Asa.

Sam and Mary go to the room where Asa’s body is lying. Blood drips on his forehead, and they look up to see Randy’s corpse tied up from the ceiling.

Buddy is talking about Asa’s Jeep when Sam and Mary come back and tell them that they all need to leave because Randy’s dead. Elvis comes back from the bathroom and says that the water is shut off, and they smell sulfur. The lights flicker and Bucky says that it’s Jael, a crossroads demon that hangs people, and he killed Asa. The doors are sealed, and Max says that the door is warded to keep them in.

Dean is outside the house and hears someone approaching. He turns to discover that it’s Billie, a Reaper. She says that she’s there doing her job and she just finished inside reaping a fresh soul.

Bucky says that in ’97, Asa exorcised Jael but not before the demon killed a girl by making her kill herself.

Dean tries the door but can’t get it open. Billie says that the people inside can’t see or hear him.

Five years later after the exorcism, Jael got into Asa’s girlfriend Marlene. Now he’s there possessing someone, and they wonder who. The Hunter point out that Alicia and Dean weren’t in the room so it must be one of them. None of them have holy water to test Alicia, and the water’s off so they can’t make more.

Billie tells Dean that she just cleans up the mess, and figures that everyone dies.

As Sam points out that Dean is still outside, Alicia starts coughing. She then giggles and Jael, possessing her, says that Alicia isn’t there. The demon slaps Max and then leaves Alicia’s body, flowing out through the fireplace. Lorraine doesn’t know if anyone else is in the house, and Jody says that they should pair off and search the house for people.

Dean tells Billie to get her in. She warns that it’s a one-way ticket and Dean will owe her one.

Elvis gets Lorraine a drink, and the front door flares white. Dean arrives and asks where Sam is, and Lorraine says that he’s a demon. Surprised, he tells them to stay with him and they’ll all get out, and Elvis takes out a knife as his eyes glow red, and says that not everyone is getting out. He slashes at Dean, who avoids his attacks. Jael says that it’s messy in Hell without Crowley and Lucifer running the place. Dean begins an exorcism, but Jael twists Elvis’ head around 180 degrees and then leaves his body.

The others come back and Dean explains what happened to Elvis. The lights go out and Sam makes a Devil’s Trap. Once they get in, the person who can’t must be possessed.

Mary goes to the study and gets Asa’s Angel Blade. As she comes back, Jody sees her go out and comes back, and whispers to Sam that Jael is in Mary. Dean comes over and Jody insists that Mary is a demon. She yells at everyone to kill Mary, and Sam says that she doesn’t sound like herself. Dean figures that Jael is possessing Dean, and Jael bursts into laughter. When Sam and Dean try to grab her, she knocks them back. Mary tries to stab her, cutting her arm, but Sam restrains her and says that it’s Jody.

Jael, bored, magically knocks them all down and says that she’s been inside of their heads and knows all about them. The demon says that Max and Alicia were too frightened to say that they came to say goodbye to their father. It continues, saying that Lorraine sabotaged Asa’s Jeep to keep him from Hunting, and Jody actually fanta about a life with Asa. When Bucky tries to grab her, Jael chokes him and says that he killed Asa. The Hunters cast an exorcism, trying to drive Jael out of Jody’s body. Bucky admits that he killed Asa, and Mary finishes the exorcism, driving the demon out.

Lorraine asks Bucky what he did, and Bucky says that Asa was always stubborn. They were in the woods and Jael was taunting Asa. Asa didn’t have the Angel Blade but kept on going, ignoring Bucky’s warning. They struggled and Asa fell and hit his head. Bucky made it look like Jael killed Asa by hanging him. He asks what they’re going to do with him, and Jody says that they’re going to tell every hunter they met what he did.

The next morning, Lorraine and the hunters burn the bodies. Lorraine tells Mary that she was wrong and Asa had a family and kids. She goes over to Max and Alicia to greet her grandchildren, and Mary apologizes to Jody for cutting her. Jody tells Mary, mom to mom, that Sam and Dean are the best men she’s ever met. Mary says that they’re not the problem, and Jody walks away.

Sam and Dean come over to Mary and ask if she’s okay. Billie appears and says that she isn’t. Billie reminds Dean that he owes her one: Mary. She says that Mary hates coming back to life, and she has a dead man’s look in her eyes. Dean says that Mary isn’t alone, and Billie tells Mary to tell the truth. Mary nods in agreement, and Billie says that she’s there to offer her mercy to Heaven, away from life. Mary asks how it would work, and Billie says that Reapers don’t kill people. After looking at her sons, Mary says that Billie will just have to wait. Billie says that they can summon her if they change their minds and disappears.

Sam asks if Mary is coming home, and she says that she is… after a little more time. Dean asks if they can at least buy her breakfast, and Mary agrees.

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Guest Stars

GUEST STARS

Samantha Smith Samantha Smith Mary Winchester
Kim Rhodes Kim Rhodes Sheriff Jody Mills
Lisa Berry Lisa Berry Billie
Mac Brandt Mac Brandt Bucky
Billy Wickman Billy Wickman Elvis Katz
Laurie Paton Laurie Paton Lorraine Fox
Kendrick Sampson Kendrick Sampson Alicia’s Brother
Kara Royster Kara Royster Alicia Banes
Darren E. Scott Darren E. Scott Randy Bull
Shaine Jones Shaine Jones Asa Fox
Jack Moore Jack Moore Young Asa Fox
Maddy Lawson Maddy Lawson
Amelia Crossley Amelia Crossley
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TRAILER/CLIPS

Trailer

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Music

MUSIC

Roll on Down the Highway” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive
(plays over the montage of Asa Fox becoming a hunter)

“Man in the Box” by Alice in Chains
(plays from Asa Fox’s family home during his wake)

“One Way Street” by James Carter (De Wolfe Music)
(playing as Bucky is telling a story about a ghoul hunt with Asa)

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Quotes

QUOTES

Dean: Oh, uh… Since the last time we saw you? I killed Hitler.
Jody: …Thank you?

 

Dean: This is a real angel blade. I mean, this guy was legit.
Sam: Did you know people tell stories about us?
Dean: Yeah. Yeah, apparently we’re a little bit legendary.

 

Dean: I mean, come on Sam, it’s not like we’re in the ‘live till you’re ninety and die in your sleep’ business. This? This only ends one way.

 

Dean: Where you been?
Mary: All over. I went back to Lawrence for a few days. And then, um, I’ve been using John’s journal to retrace a few things. Try to catch up on what I’ve missed.
Dean: You could’ve just asked us, you know?

 

Jody: You okay?
Dean: Swell.
Jody: Huh. Is that why you spent the entire ride up here telling me in extreme, excruciating detail how you killed Hitler, but, uh, you neglected to mention the fact that your mom is back from the dead?

 

Sam: Yeah, mom, you don’t have to explain anything. I get it. You need space. And– and so does Dean, you know? I– I mean, he– He’s just… We just got you back, and he’s just scared that we’re gonna lose you again, that — that because we’re hunters you’re gonna walk away. But I know that’s not true. Even looking at these… I mean you saved Asa in 1980, um, after Dean was born, after everyone thought you quit hunting. Seems like you couldn’t stop then, and… I’m guessing you can’t stop now either. This job, this life… It’s crazy and insane. But it’s in our blood.

 

Jael: Oh, I have heard so many stories about you Winchesters. And… I desperately want the Lucifer thing to be true. The idea that he left a meatsuit alive is just so deliciously weak. As for the rest of you, I have been inside your heads. I know all about you! For example, the twins — too frightened to tell anyone that they actually came to say goodbye to their daddy. Or the grieving mother who hated the fact that her son was a hunter so much, she’d hide his gear, she’d sabotage his jeep, anything to keep him from hunting. Not that it worked. Could’ve tried harder, huh? And this… Meatsuit that you all seem to care so much about, she actually fantasized about a life with Asa. Can you believe that? Like that worthless man-

 

Jody: I don’t know what’s going on between you and your boys. But I gotta tell you, mom to mom… They are good men. Best I’ve ever met.
Mary: I know. They’re not the problem.

 

Billie: The look in your eyes, I’ve seen it before. It’s a dead man’s look — eyes that say no matter where you go or what you do, it feels like this world doesn’t fit anymore, like you’re all alone.
Dean: Well, she’s not alone.
Billie: Tell me I’m wrong. I’m not here to hurt you. I’m here to offer you mercy. A one-way ticket upstairs, away from all of this.
Mary: How would it work?
Sam: Mom?
Mary: You just kill me again?
Billie: Reapers don’t kill people. Rules.
Mary: Well… then… Then I guess you’re just gonna have to wait.
Billie: Winchesters. If you change your mind — if any of you change your minds — you know my name.

 

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Trivia

TRIVIA

Sam: Figured we’d stop by on the way home, see you, Claire and Alex.
Jody: Aw, that’s fun. Unfortunately, the girls are in Omaha for the weekend, being angsty at a Radiohead concert. But I can feed you.

Radiohead are an English rock band known for their unique and emotional style.

 

 

Dean: Jody, you watching some kind of chick flick here?
Jody: Well, Dean, I’m a chick.
Dean: No. No, no, you’re — you’re a badass sheriff chick. You’re not a-a romcom chick. Wait, are you a romcom chick?
Jody: Are you?
Sam: He’s more of a, uh… animated Japanese erotica chick.

Hentai is a catch-all term to describe pornographic anime or manga. It was revealed in season seven that Dean is a fan of “animated cartoon porn” and sees anime as an art form.

 

 

Jody: Yeah. Yeah, he was a hunter. He, uh, rolled into town a few months back, tried to convince me he was FBI Agent Fox Mulder. He was chasing a pack of ghouls, and I helped. He’d pass through every once in a while and we’d grab coffee or… something. Oh, he was a good man. The– the wake’s tonight and, um, they’re going to salt and burn the body tomorrow. I can’t believe I just said that like it’s something normal.

FBI Agent Fox Mulder was one of the main characters on the TV show The X-Files. He and his partner Dana Scully hunted aliens among other supernatural and paranormal cases.

 

 

Sam: Wait, so you guys were raised by a witch, but you’re hunters?
Max: Yep. She was, like, a good witch. Very Enya. It was the ’90s.

Enya is an Irish musician who was hugely popular in the ’90s with her Celtic/new age music.

 

 

Billie: You can huff and puff, but that house is on supernatural lockdown. They can’t even hear you.

To “huff and puff” is a reference to the tale of the Three Little Pigs, and the effort the wolf puts in to destroy their house.

 

 

Jael: An exorcism? Unh-unh. Elvis is leaving the building.

A take on the phrase “Elvis has left the building” originally used to disperse the audience at an Elvis concert that hoped for an encore.

 

 

Max: What kind of a devil’s trap?
Sam: Standard pentagram. Nothing fancy.
Max: I like a Fifth Pentacle of Mars. It’s got more character.

The “Fifth Pentacle of Mars” is one of the magic pentacles in the Greater Key of Solomon, used for protection against demons. Specifically it is used to force a demon to submit to the possessor of the pentacle.

 

 
Shaine Jones, who played Asa Fox, previously played Demon Medic in 7.17 The Born-Again Identity.

 
Billy Wickman, who played Elvis Katz, previously played Brian in 7.19 Of Grave Importance.

 
This is the first time the Winchesters have visited Canada, other than their Vancouver visit in the alternate reality shown in 6.15 The French Mistake.

 
Asa Fox’s hunter friends have a drinking game, where you must take a shot when someone says “wendigo.”

 
Previously it had been believed that Mary Winchester gave up hunting when she married John Winchester, but it is revealed that she was still hunting at least a year after Dean was born. However, she makes it seem like it was a temporary thing as she was “tying up a few loose ends.”

 
Randy: No freakin’ way. Aren’t you dead? Like, four times?
Dean: Yeah. It, uh, didn’t take.

Dean has in fact been dead or assumed dead four times in the series. First when he was killed by a hellhound in 3.16 No Rest for the Wicked, second was being shot by Walt and Roy alongside Sam in 5.16 Dark Side of the Moon, he was assumed dead by Sam after being sucked into Purgatory at the end of 7.23 Survival of the Fittest and being stabbed and killed by Metatron in 9.23 Do You Believe in Miracles?.

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Episode Schedule

Thu, Oct 10 15.01 - Back and to the Future - Season Premiere
Thu, Oc 17 15.02 - Raising Hell
Thu, Oct 24 15.03 - The Rupture
Thu, Nov 7 15.04 - Atomic Monsters
Thu, Nov 14 15.05 - Proverbs 17:3
Thu, Nov 21 15.06 - Golden Time
Thu, Dec 05 15.07 - Last Call
Thu, Dec 12 15.08 - Our Father, Who Aren’t In Heaven
Thu, Jan 16 2020 15.09 - The Trap
Thu, Jan 23 2020 15.10 - The Heroes' Journey
Thu, Jan 30 2020 15.11 - The Gamblers
Mon, March 16 2020 15.12 - Galaxy Brain
Mon, March 23 2020 15.13 - Destiny's Child
Thu, Oct 08 2020 15.14 - Last Holiday
Thu, Oct 15 2020 15.15 - Gimme Shelter
Thu, Oct 22 2020 15.16 - Drag Me Away (From You)
Thu, Oct 29 2020 15.17 - Unity
Thu, Nov 05 2020 15.18 - Despair
Thu, Nov 12 2020 15.19 - Inherit the Earth
Thu, Nov 19 2020 15.20 - Carry On - Series Finale

* This Schedule might change as new info come.

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